Very realistic ones too. After reading the wonderful said post by @penelopetrunk they had to be. Taking my lead from point one “think small” these are something I know (may be I hope) I will complete with a little effort and so change my behaviour in a real way over the long-term, much like someone that needs to change eating habits.

So, here they are, although I can really think of a good goal for being more organised. Well not yet…

3. Be more organised..?? if you have an idea for a goal here, let me know.

4. Meditation: 25 mins each evening after kids go to bed

Day one is a success, apart from the Chinese as I couldn’t find the files, I have now, but I’m writing this. Have to say it is nice to sit down in peace and quiet for half an hour and do nothing (or try to). I read 20 pages in a few minutes before realising that the boiler outlet had frozen so had to go outside to knock off the ice.. yes, it’s that cold.

Will keep this up until the end of the month, see how well I have done and possible bore both of my readers senseless with tales of reading books and meditation – but in Chinese. Yeah right.

I like the ‘be more organised one’, but totally agree you have to make it more quantifiable. I don’t know how naturally organised you are, but on the off chance you’re of the less organised variety, check out the blog post I wrote on the topic…

Hello Marianne… not too bad. Been late home last few days so not much doing but will get back into it. When it comes to getting organised the biggest problem is that I can’t stick with the same system. I just forget about it or can’t find it.

Not sure the board would work for me – I move around a bit, but even a virtual one is almost too much effort (like those post-it notes for your desktop).

However, I seem to get things done and also prefer “creative or free-flowing.” :o)

Yes, I completely agree with you – that’s how I am too. I try to keep it simple now – I rotate my system depending on what’s working. So it’s a rotation of my crazy board, combination of Outlook reminders (for literally everything in my life… sad), and a to-do notepad list that lives on my desktop.

Tried the post-it ideas and dropped them too. Designed for less ‘free-flowing’ people I think!

Yes, can sort out peoples problems usually. I do a good dispassionate observer. My own disorganised life is something else. I seem to rely on some sort of cosmic will. I jest, but I would like to be better.

Too many things, too many questions, too much advice requested. It’s nice to be wanted but I need to be able to delegate some stuff better.. if only I had the time ;o)